Community Consultation & Training
Find guidance and services to help your organization better serve children and families from The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness.
Our Approach
Depend on our specialists to work with clinicians, educators and staff at your agency, health system or child care center. Partner with our consultants to establish and follow best practices that are:
- Based on attachment theory of building healthy, strong relationships
- Child- and family-centered
- Multidisciplinary
- Research- and evidence-based
- Trauma-informed
Child Placement Consultation Team
Find a full range of therapy and evaluation services for children in the child welfare system. The Lourie Center’s Child Placement Consultation Team and the Child Welfare Services Program offers:
- Screenings and assessments, including comprehensive evaluations regarding parenting capacity and the quality of relationships between children and caregivers
- Expert witness testimony in court
- Placement decision recommendations and court testimony
Infants & Toddlers Program
Access mental health and early intervention services from professionals at five Montgomery County Infants & Toddlers Program (MCITP) sites. Serving children from birth to age 4 with developmental delays, the program offers services such as:
- Assistive technology
- Family counseling, support and training
- Language interpreting
- Nutritional counseling
- Physical, occupational and speech-language therapies
- Services for visual or hearing impairment
- Social work
- Transportation
